Imagine being a merchant sailor, looking at the periscope of a submarine that might sink your ship, already worrying about what could happen, only to see shells wizz right over your head as your supposed savior fires into the general direction of the sub whilst heading straight towards your ship at flank speed.
All while looking at all the ice and knowing just how cold that water is going to be; the fate of the Titanic passengers (still relatively recent only 30 odd years ago) in the water and how quickly they froze to death.
You're getting good at hunting subs as you are driving one. The blind run with no sonar support against Charlie was a thing of beauty. Guessing the 5in guns hits plus depth charge hit immediately killed him. Love your destroyer hunting content!
@@Wolfpack345The early credits made me think for a second: Oh no does this mean that USS Janson will get torpedoed any moment?? That was a nice dramatic effect!
You want choppy water when sailing through ice. Makes the ice better to see when the waves break over the iceberg. In a CBDR situation, you want to pass to the stern of the oncoming vessel. So if you have a ship coming from your STBD, you slow, come to STBD, pass Port Side to Port Side, and circle around their stern, and the general rule of thumb is Vessels to STBD have the right of way.
I mean, at the same token, you should probably give a warship, actively engaging in combat, right of way. They ARE the one actively trying to save your bacon.
I've learned doing the tutorial then watching your videos really helps to see the application of all the different stations at work. The tutorial kind of just tells you how to use it without showing you hands on
Those U-boats really could use an AI upgrade ... . They should dive as soon as they see the flash of the 5", not only after the first shrapnel hit their conning tower ... and then not come up again to the surface to complete the attack run, but evade. And shoot their torps from 800m, instead of running in to 150m of the cargo ships.
As it is, it gives players something to shoot at, which seems to be a conscious design decision. Don't think you're getting a "hardcore"/realistic experience without mods.
Also not keep their periscope up so damn long that it brings the escorts _straight_ to you. Seeing how long those feathers stay visible I was like "wtf"
Dear skipper, stop interrupting Mountie's pathway xDD Excellent job anyways. I love your videos from Destroyer and looking for some more content from this excellent game ;)
Another great adventure that really gets my blood moving. This is a whole ot more complicated than SH3 or U-boat. At least that's the way it seems to me. Thank you for the Great entertaining that went along with it.
I'm not sure I'd call it more complicated, but with more pressure. Submarine games you can take more or less as much time as you want to plan, while with this you have to get to the targets and sink them quickly and efficiently.
"Go get 'em Tiger ..." "Contact Dog ... Now Bears" ? Bears ? Like ... Polar Bears riding on those icebergs!?! hee hee. All we need are some Canadien call signs for "Goose" "Beaver", "Moose" and "Squirrel" for a zoo. But seriously - Woo Hoo! What a great episode! Those Flower Class Corvettes with an open "weather" bridge must have been hideous to try to man. I know they were built ASAP from Whaler Ship plans, but they must've lost a lot of crew to pneumonia.
Have you hit a iceburg before? Its supposed to be -2 tomorrow. Its going to be interesting to see how my insurance handles hypothtermia. Cant wait. Great video as well.
Glad you're still enjoying the campaign. Mine unfortunately stopped saving so I could never progress through my 5th or so mission even if I sat down and tried doing it all in one stretch.
Handy little ships the Flower class, not bad for a ship that's basically a conversion of a commercial whaling hull! (the design is a conversion, they were built as warships it's just using a civilian hull design as the base).
Will this be the consistent state of ai subs or will they add a harder difficulty where they use the tactics you would use in SH or wolfpack to engage convoys, where you can usually get a few sinks in before being spotted, and use silent running to no propeller use to avoid you for a while or would that be too long/hard for the gameplay they are aiming for? Edit: also adding the ability to ping for when they do go silent
23:00 I see from the display that 4 ships are listed as doing radar watch in 4 slices of the pie. But there are only two escorts, so who are the other two ships doing radar watch?
"if you were hauling iron ore, you slept in your clothing with the bulkhead open. If you took a torpedo in the night you'd sink as fast as you could wake. If you were hauling munitions you slept soundly with the door closed." -My greatx2 uncle
First plot position @2:41 was put at 325° not 355° (sure you realized that while editing) which made the 2nd position look odd. while I personally prefer sub sims I still find this enjoyable to watch the way you make it.
You're fkn killing me. You did it again. At 02:37 you're saying contact 355 and you're plotting 325, and 20 seconds later you're wondering what happened... 🤣🤣 And then at 34:00 again you read 234 and plotting 345... 🙃 Another great one, and I still have part 4... Thanks
Can we take a moment to appreciate this live demonstration of how instrumental radar was for ASW protection of allied convoys? Without it we would be notified about the third U-boat not by a sonar operator calling out new contact at 15:37, but rather by a couple of loud *BOOMS* at the other side of the convoy a couple of minutes later.
Do you ever lose or only show the ones that you've won? Because I can't believe that no torpedoes have ever hit you on this or Silent Hunter 3! Also, it'd be much better to see a close up of the Uboats getting hit. Thanks for posting this.
So these u-boats never give up, or decide to stay deep below 160 meters and slow down below 50 RPM to try to avoid being hit by sonar? Feels weird that every mission ends with all u-boats being destroyed.
Wolfpack is actually doing really well. Another channel covering this game shows what happens if you're not aggressive enough persecuting these u boats - they will fire on allied convoys and you'll start taking causalities.
@@Trades46 That's not my point. My point is that u-boats wouldn't be continuing to attack when actively being hunted by destroyers. They would evade until the escort gave up the chase, then escape the battleground to position themselves somewhere else later. In the game, they barely evade and then try to resurface for another attack when being actively pursued, which is suicidal. They are easy pickings.
To try and get atleast get close to the convoy using there much faster surface speed and sometimes the surface weather conditions are atleast favourable enough to try and surface without getting detected
Taking nothing away from your performance by the AI still doesn't impress me here. Why didn't that third submarine launch its torpedoes at the convoy? Why get so close that its periscope could be seen by the transport and yet not fire? The convoy should have had at least two sips hit while you were chasing Baker imo. The U-Boat game Destroyer AI was far better at hunting you down that these u-boats are at prosecuting an attack. Please tell me they get better because at the moment it feels like a turkey shoot. However it could also mean you are just that good.
...that's the wrong kind of "ships ohoy"! Slightly surprised you evade merchants by turning into their bow. Cutting behind them generates a lot more angles on the bow and their motion takes them out of your path instead of keeping them in it.
I doubt it, if for no other reason than so much of the equipment you use is for sub hunting (no torps, for example); not to mention, against a capital ship you'd probably get sunk quickly. Disguised merchant raiders didn't really operate in the North Atlantic since any targets would be in convoys. But a mission to hunt down and sink a merchant raider would be neat.
@@TheSchultinator Yeah. And by the time I will have the time to play this game, I would hope this game to be updated to have the chance of encountering an enemy cruiser or pocket battleship (adjustable from difficulty settings of course) with the correct survival strategy naturally being to let the other destroyers draw in the capital ships cannon fire and then fire torpedoes as well as missions to hunt down enemy commerce raiders disguising as civilian ships.
Atrocious bad trade for the Germans. Eight U-Boats for one merchant ship in this convoy? They can't win the Battle of the Atlantic like that. Not a chance.
U boat captains aren't suicidal. Wolfpack has been shooting 5in guns and starshells once they appear on the surface lining up for an attack & force them under, and it is hard to plot an attack when you have a DD constantly tracking you on sonar, which is why they're always on the defensive.
@grnmjolnir I feel like he got pretty lucky that charlie or dog didn't manage to engage I suspect for dog it was a matter of moments before that sub took a shot
This playlist is drastically out of order. Don't want to be that guy, but it kinda defeats the point when I have to click through the playlist because it won't auto navigate to the correct next episode
![[SS14] The Stealth Operation](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/f3eVKay2me0/mqdefault.jpg)
Imagine being a merchant sailor, looking at the periscope of a submarine that might sink your ship, already worrying about what could happen, only to see shells wizz right over your head as your supposed savior fires into the general direction of the sub whilst heading straight towards your ship at flank speed.
twice
This is what would be known as, "a close shave."
@@misterfister8641 I would call it: A JAG's wet dream.
I'd feel conflicted, to say the least..
All while looking at all the ice and knowing just how cold that water is going to be; the fate of the Titanic passengers (still relatively recent only 30 odd years ago) in the water and how quickly they froze to death.
Best cinematic wargame content on UA-cam. Fact. Thanks Wolfpack!
"Sonar reports sounds of sinking submarine"
Sonar: *screaming german noises*
Sonar reports German screaming....What does Scheisse mean??
Sonar reports a voice doing....commentary for something called a youtube audience?
The hell is a Silent Hunter?
@@Pyxis10 💀
It's a long way to Tipperary...
You're getting good at hunting subs as you are driving one. The blind run with no sonar support against Charlie was a thing of beauty. Guessing the 5in guns hits plus depth charge hit immediately killed him. Love your destroyer hunting content!
The expression "Takes one to know one." rings particularly true in this instance!
>The blind run with no sonar support against Charlie was a thing of beauty
Yeah, he just -360 no scope- flank speed no sonar'd that poor sod. 😆
@@jamesgriffiths7588 Wolfpack is only playing this to get better at SH3 and UBOAT.
Port lookout: "Bearing zero-one-nine! Appears to be a periscope feather!"
Wolf (whispers): "Okay, I don't care."
My man so invested in the Sonar reading that he forgor he can just run over it
I was on the edge of my seat, but I did notice at 42:45 the credits rolling by on the side of the screen
Oop thanks for that. I'll fix it
@@Wolfpack345The early credits made me think for a second: Oh no does this mean that USS Janson will get torpedoed any moment?? That was a nice dramatic effect!
Thanks for the upload! Loving this series!
Glad you enjoy it! Thank you so much!
Those Canadian corvettes sure know how to keep a U-boat down
Got some Greyhound vibes when Dicky was putting in work haha
Leave it to the air support to show up when the threat has been mostly eliminated! Great work as always!
Yes! Putting to sea on a Sunday night!
You want choppy water when sailing through ice. Makes the ice better to see when the waves break over the iceberg. In a CBDR situation, you want to pass to the stern of the oncoming vessel. So if you have a ship coming from your STBD, you slow, come to STBD, pass Port Side to Port Side, and circle around their stern, and the general rule of thumb is Vessels to STBD have the right of way.
I mean, at the same token, you should probably give a warship, actively engaging in combat, right of way. They ARE the one actively trying to save your bacon.
I’m really getting into this. Such an interesting perspective shift from SH3
the deck gun crew can definately compete in any imperial stormtrooper competion..
Always a good day when Wolfpack uploads
I've learned doing the tutorial then watching your videos really helps to see the application of all the different stations at work. The tutorial kind of just tells you how to use it without showing you hands on
this reminds me of Grey Hound, its a movie about a Sub-Chaser protecting a convoy from the famous WolfPack group of subs
By far the most realistic sub hunter movie, watched it yesterday that's how I ended up here lol
Great action!
I never noticed how pretty the instruments looked before. You can even see some DRT mechanism through the surface.
Dude, you nailed that depth charge drop on Baker. That was a thing of beauty.
Wolfpack makes this game look so easy. It's incredibly hard even with assistances enabled
Thank you for taking the time to do this.
Those U-boats really could use an AI upgrade ... . They should dive as soon as they see the flash of the 5", not only after the first shrapnel hit their conning tower ... and then not come up again to the surface to complete the attack run, but evade. And shoot their torps from 800m, instead of running in to 150m of the cargo ships.
As it is, it gives players something to shoot at, which seems to be a conscious design decision. Don't think you're getting a "hardcore"/realistic experience without mods.
Also not keep their periscope up so damn long that it brings the escorts _straight_ to you. Seeing how long those feathers stay visible I was like "wtf"
Really loving this campaign! Crazy how exciting it is!
Watching this series along side your Silent Hunter 3 series to get both sides of the adventure.
For some reason, Mountie's livery with the multi-colored shapes reminds me of a 90's Solo cup
😂
I wonder if the Mountie would have Canadian accent.
**maple syrup noises**
16:30 that's mountie responding.
Dear skipper, stop interrupting Mountie's pathway xDD Excellent job anyways. I love your videos from Destroyer and looking for some more content from this excellent game ;)
Another great adventure that really gets my blood moving. This is a whole ot more complicated than SH3 or U-boat. At least that's the way it seems to me. Thank you for the Great entertaining that went along with it.
I'm not sure I'd call it more complicated, but with more pressure. Submarine games you can take more or less as much time as you want to plan, while with this you have to get to the targets and sink them quickly and efficiently.
It sounds like you have Pavel Chekov on ice lookout.
100% :D Thank You!!!
Thank you, thank you 🙏🏼 for how you play this game and give us some Lore. Makes it more real
absolutely favourite series that you make currently.
"Go get 'em Tiger ..." "Contact Dog ... Now Bears" ? Bears ? Like ... Polar Bears riding on those icebergs!?! hee hee. All we need are some Canadien call signs for "Goose" "Beaver", "Moose" and "Squirrel" for a zoo.
But seriously - Woo Hoo! What a great episode! Those Flower Class Corvettes with an open "weather" bridge must have been hideous to try to man. I know they were built ASAP from Whaler Ship plans, but they must've lost a lot of crew to pneumonia.
Have you hit a iceburg before? Its supposed to be -2 tomorrow. Its going to be interesting to see how my insurance handles hypothtermia. Cant wait. Great video as well.
Glad you're still enjoying the campaign. Mine unfortunately stopped saving so I could never progress through my 5th or so mission even if I sat down and tried doing it all in one stretch.
Handy little ships the Flower class, not bad for a ship that's basically a conversion of a commercial whaling hull! (the design is a conversion, they were built as warships it's just using a civilian hull design as the base).
I see you are matching real life weather with this one
Great video, as you never disappoint. Thank you.
13:21 EMBLAUZENNNN!! LOL u boat got it from both ends!
Of all the combat simulators out there, this is by far my favorite. WWI dogfighting is a very close second.
Rise of flight?
Well done Wolfpack Hunter roles changed haha, Would of been good doing a career
in this, like in SH3
That was awesome, really intense!
Will this be the consistent state of ai subs or will they add a harder difficulty where they use the tactics you would use in SH or wolfpack to engage convoys, where you can usually get a few sinks in before being spotted, and use silent running to no propeller use to avoid you for a while or would that be too long/hard for the gameplay they are aiming for?
Edit: also adding the ability to ping for when they do go silent
40:00 He made a funky shape and crossed right over his own wake! Hehe, this makes my ADHD happy for some reason lol
23:00 I see from the display that 4 ships are listed as doing radar watch in 4 slices of the pie. But there are only two escorts, so who are the other two ships doing radar watch?
Always really intense. Great videos!
"if you were hauling iron ore, you slept in your clothing with the bulkhead open. If you took a torpedo in the night you'd sink as fast as you could wake. If you were hauling munitions you slept soundly with the door closed." -My greatx2 uncle
Having watched so many videos of you in the conning tower, it's takes a little adjustment to listen to you order depth charges
Uboat crew: "I think our captain has lost it."
It would be interesting if they added a scenario to this game where you have to deal with a merchant raider.
I'm enjoying this play though Wolfpack keep up the great work,
I was wondering if you were thinking of doing a il 2 p47 thunderbolt play though ?
Ive always wondered if this game would allow you to ram the sub or at least run into the periscope?
29:00 second pattern dropped was shallow because it reset when reloading
First plot position @2:41 was put at 325° not 355° (sure you realized that while editing) which made the 2nd position look odd. while I personally prefer sub sims I still find this enjoyable to watch the way you make it.
You're fkn killing me. You did it again. At 02:37 you're saying contact 355 and you're plotting 325, and 20 seconds later you're wondering what happened... 🤣🤣
And then at 34:00 again you read 234 and plotting 345... 🙃
Another great one, and I still have part 4... Thanks
They have some sweet graphics on this game. Wish I could figure it out.
I mean contact Charlie was fairly predicable, it was standard practice was it not to lure escorts and kill with another on the far side.
YEAAAAAAAAH IVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG
Had some technical errors :)
@@Wolfpack345 i aint complaining man, i dont have the energy to learn everything in these games you play. You make them entertaining and its great.
Love it! Great job Captain
CANADIAN NAVY SAVES THE DAY AGAIN
Can we take a moment to appreciate this live demonstration of how instrumental radar was for ASW protection of allied convoys?
Without it we would be notified about the third U-boat not by a sonar operator calling out new contact at 15:37, but rather by a couple of loud *BOOMS* at the other side of the convoy a couple of minutes later.
Can the uboats actually like… shoot torpedos at you? I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone get hit playing this game
Yup they can!
WHat kind of setting do you have on depth charges? Realistic or the lower one? Thanks
Always a pleasure
A hydrophone would be a huge addition to this game .
If im not mistaken, that ost was from SH4
Never tried U boat war fare - you look a veteran 🇦🇺👍
Do you ever lose or only show the ones that you've won? Because I can't believe that no torpedoes have ever hit you on this or Silent Hunter 3!
Also, it'd be much better to see a close up of the Uboats getting hit.
Thanks for posting this.
if i was the captain of that merchant I'd think you have mistaken the cargo ship for a sub lol
So these u-boats never give up, or decide to stay deep below 160 meters and slow down below 50 RPM to try to avoid being hit by sonar? Feels weird that every mission ends with all u-boats being destroyed.
Wolfpack is actually doing really well. Another channel covering this game shows what happens if you're not aggressive enough persecuting these u boats - they will fire on allied convoys and you'll start taking causalities.
@@Trades46 That's not my point. My point is that u-boats wouldn't be continuing to attack when actively being hunted by destroyers. They would evade until the escort gave up the chase, then escape the battleground to position themselves somewhere else later. In the game, they barely evade and then try to resurface for another attack when being actively pursued, which is suicidal. They are easy pickings.
@nm7358 yeah, it's weird how they decide to resurface after being shot at by a destroyer
Looks like Mountie got more U-boats than you on this trip. Well done, that ship.
How come the American submarines of WWII don't get any love? They sank a lot of IJN ships...and a train!
Black Cats, too? When is this convoy taking place?
Why ? Would a sub surface when destroyers are so close ?..
To try and get atleast get close to the convoy using there much faster surface speed and sometimes the surface weather conditions are atleast favourable enough to try and surface without getting detected
WW2 subs move faster and maneuver better on surface than submerged. They want to get into a firing position, let off a Salvo then run like hell.
@@Trades46 Yes, but committing Huri-curry next to a destroyer isn't what happened.
last flower class is in halifax nova scotia canada hmcs sackville
Best content! Thank you!
What game is this is it a mod for silent hunter?
Taking nothing away from your performance by the AI still doesn't impress me here. Why didn't that third submarine launch its torpedoes at the convoy? Why get so close that its periscope could be seen by the transport and yet not fire? The convoy should have had at least two sips hit while you were chasing Baker imo. The U-Boat game Destroyer AI was far better at hunting you down that these u-boats are at prosecuting an attack. Please tell me they get better because at the moment it feels like a turkey shoot. However it could also mean you are just that good.
Thrilling!
...that's the wrong kind of "ships ohoy"! Slightly surprised you evade merchants by turning into their bow. Cutting behind them generates a lot more angles on the bow and their motion takes them out of your path instead of keeping them in it.
wait what 40:12 lmao
Well done
This scene is similar to dicky and greyhound escort movie
Are you using voice attack or some other speech input? Or just narration of what your doing? Its hard to tell at times
thank you for this youtube
I dont know this game at all. Is there ever a chance that instead of uboat, the threat will be a German capital ship or commerce raider?
I doubt it, if for no other reason than so much of the equipment you use is for sub hunting (no torps, for example); not to mention, against a capital ship you'd probably get sunk quickly. Disguised merchant raiders didn't really operate in the North Atlantic since any targets would be in convoys. But a mission to hunt down and sink a merchant raider would be neat.
@@TheSchultinator Yeah. And by the time I will have the time to play this game, I would hope this game to be updated to have the chance of encountering an enemy cruiser or pocket battleship (adjustable from difficulty settings of course) with the correct survival strategy naturally being to let the other destroyers draw in the capital ships cannon fire and then fire torpedoes as well as missions to hunt down enemy commerce raiders disguising as civilian ships.
Epic
Nice
I cant make out the numbers on any of my devices
Atrocious bad trade for the Germans. Eight U-Boats for one merchant ship in this convoy? They can't win the Battle of the Atlantic like that. Not a chance.
why are the subs spending so much time sailing in the open while spotted? makes no sense..
Agreed, like ifea of the game, but enemy AI needs work.
40:12
Like video
Is it just me or is the sub-ai a bit dumb? 4 subs an not even one shot once.
U boat captains aren't suicidal. Wolfpack has been shooting 5in guns and starshells once they appear on the surface lining up for an attack & force them under, and it is hard to plot an attack when you have a DD constantly tracking you on sonar, which is why they're always on the defensive.
@grnmjolnir I feel like he got pretty lucky that charlie or dog didn't manage to engage I suspect for dog it was a matter of moments before that sub took a shot
Yea Dog was a bit weird for me it was right next to a freighter and never shot, looked like it was just sailing submerged along side it
They seem to be.
This playlist is drastically out of order. Don't want to be that guy, but it kinda defeats the point when I have to click through the playlist because it won't auto navigate to the correct next episode
Anyone watch greywolf?
This game is quite boring. Those uboots are no threat.
Your ice lookout sounds Russian.
boring buddy game
do you get upgrades in this game?